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Wednesday 20 August 2025
Xiaomi strengthens smartphone presence amid modest global growth
Despite declining smartphone sales, Xiaomi maintained its top-three global smartphone ranking amid a mature market while its AIoT business maintained gross margins above 20%. Strategic...
Wednesday 20 August 2025
China's DeepSeek releases V3.1, boosting the AI model's capabilities
DeepSeek announced what appeared to be an update to its older V3 artificial intelligence model on Tuesday, declaring an enhanced version ready for testing.
The V3.1 has a longer...
Wednesday 20 August 2025
Why TSMC's CoWoS bottleneck could lock AI memory makers into Nvidia's orbit
The AI chip market is expected to stay under Nvidia's dominance in 2026, as Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, and Micron battle to win sixth-generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM4) orders...
Wednesday 20 August 2025
Xiaomi eyes 2027 European expansion following robust EV profitability
Xiaomi's electric vehicle business delivered strong performance in the second quarter of 2025, reflecting the company's strategic focus on premiumization and operational efficiency...
Wednesday 20 August 2025
Xiaomi shifts gears as EV and AI drive growth despite smartphone slowdown
Xiaomi delivered a strong performance in the second quarter of 2025, underscoring its rapid transformation into a more diversified technology company. Growth in its EV, AI, and new...
Wednesday 20 August 2025
Minebea Mitsumi calls Shibaura deal a once-in-a-lifetime chance as Yageo delays linger
The acquisition contest for Shibaura Electronics, a maker of negative temperature coefficient (NTC) thermistors, has intensified as Minebea Mitsumi and Taiwan's Yageo Corporation...
Wednesday 20 August 2025
Samsung's HBM3E supply to Nvidia loses strategic significance as focus shifts to HBM4 in 2026
Driven by the booming demand for artificial intelligence (AI) servers, high-bandwidth memory (HBM) has become a key factor reshaping the memory industry landscape. Micron recently...
Wednesday 20 August 2025
TSMC holds the high ground on 2nm, but Samsung moves fast to close the gap
The battle for dominance in 2-nanometer (nm) chip manufacturing has officially begun. While Samsung Electronics is gaining ground by offering lower prices and faster response times,...
Wednesday 20 August 2025
Cambricon Technologies to raise CNY3.98B to advance AI chip autonomy
China's artificial intelligence (AI) industry is rapidly developing, with the Chinese government actively promoting increased procurement of domestically produced AI chips by local...
Wednesday 20 August 2025
China unveils e-beam lithography machine with precision near ASML's High-NA EUV, but faces mass production hurdles
China has unveiled its first domestically developed commercial electron-beam lithography (EBL) tool, marking a symbolic step forward in efforts to reduce reliance on foreign semiconductor...
Wednesday 20 August 2025
Chip toolmakers diverge: AI drives windfalls, China demand fades
Half of the world's 10 largest chip equipment makers reported profit declines or markedly slower growth in the second quarter of 2025, highlighting an uneven cycle driven by booming...
Tuesday 19 August 2025
Dongfeng to sell Honda engine JV stake as China accelerates EV shift

Dongfeng Motor Corporation, one of China's largest state-owned automakers, is divesting its 50% stake in Dongfeng Honda Engine Co., a...

Tuesday 19 August 2025
Beijing's digital report card: Big 5G gains, rising AI, and the next bet on low-altitude economy
China unveiled the results of its 14th Five-Year Plan (2021–2025) for digital economy development, showcasing progress in digital infrastructure, cross-industry data applications,...
Tuesday 19 August 2025
Samsung SDI beats LGES, SK On to secure major ESS contract
Samsung SDI recently emerged victorious in a large-scale energy storage system (ESS) tender in South Korea, marking a significant milestone in its business transformation as the electric...
Tuesday 19 August 2025
Huawei data center chip stuck on outdated 5nm node, teardown reveals
A recent teardown of Huawei's new Kunpeng 930 data center processor suggests the chip may still rely on TSMC's five-year-old 5nm manufacturing node. The finding underscores how US...